亚里斯多德与苏格拉底、柏拉图一块被广泛觉得是西方哲学的奠基者，他的哲学思想深深影响人类长达两千多年，是整个人类历史上的伟大哲学家。马克思曾称亚里斯多德是古希腊哲学家里最博学的人物，恩格斯称他是古时候的黑格尔。让大家在倾听如此一个历史巨人的教诲时， 不经意地记住一些单词吧！可能你或许会发现原来这类单词这样容易，这是由于你的思想被打动了。
1.A great city is not to be confounded with a populous1 one.
Confound:混淆
Populous:人口稠密的
2.Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Purpose:目的
3.Bad men are full of repentance2.
Repentance：后悔
3.Bashfulness is an ornament3 to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Bashfulness:鲁莽
Ornament:装饰
Reproach:诟病；指责
4.Both oligarch and tyrant4 mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Oligarch:寡头
Tyrant:暴君
Deprive:剥夺
5.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Guarantee:保证
6.Democracy is when the indigent5, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy:民主
Indigent:贫穷的
7.Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity:尊严
Consist:组成
Consciousness:意识
Deserve:应该获得
8.Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Prosperity:富足；兴盛
Refugee:避难所
Adversity:不利
9.Hence poetry is something more philosophic6 and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Philosophic:哲理的
Singular:单一的
Universal:常见的
10.In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Marvelous:神奇的
11.It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims7.
Unbecoming:不能体的；
Utter:说出
Maxim:格言；警句
12.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence8.
Sway:摇摆；被左右
Reverence:尊敬
13.Nature does nothing in vain.
Vain:徒劳的
14.No excellent soul is exempt9 from a mixture of madness.
Exempt:被免除的
15.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Perfection:完美
16.Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
prefer: 更喜欢
17.Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate10 into despotisms.
Decline:衰退
Degenerate:堕落
Despotism: 专制；暴政
18.Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities11 with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Calamity:灾难
Cheerfulness:快乐
Insensibility：无动于衷；麻木
19.Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Temperance:节制
20.The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Outward:外表的
Inward:内在的
Significance:实质；要紧
21.The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Essence：本质
22.The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Circumstances:环境
23.The least initial deviation12 from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Initial:初始的
Deviation:偏离
Multiply:大大增加
Thousanfold:一千倍
24.The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness13 and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere14 survival.
Awareness:
Contemplation:深思
Survival:存活
25.The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Sum:综合
26.The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Inequality:不平等；不公正
27.The young are permanently15 in a state re百度竞价推广bling intoxication16.
Permanently:永久地；长期地
Re百度竞价推广ble:模仿
Intoxication:陶醉；衍生词：动词intoxicate
28.We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Wax:蜡
Impress:盖印
29.What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition17 to virtue18 and the performance of virtuous19 actions.
Anxious:着急的；
Moral:道德的
Disposition:风韵
Virtue: 美德
30.Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening21 fruit.
Ripen20:使成熟
31.Wit is educated insolence22.
Wit:幽默
Educated: 有教养的；受过教育的
Insolence:无礼；粗鲁
